fossil fuel
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U.S. Judge Rules a Fossil Fuel Law Violated Young Plaintiffs’ Right to a Clean and Healthful Environment
The Montana judge who heard the United States’ first constitutional climate trial has officially ruled in favour of the young plaintiffs who argued that the state’s officials had violated their rights in favour of fossil fuel interests. In a 103-page decision, Judge Kathy Seeley agreed that additional greenhouse gasses will further strengthen the negative impacts of…
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3 Ways the Government Can Turn Australia Into a Renewable Energy Superpower
Here’s what Australia should do if it wants to transform into a renewable energy powerhouse.
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Turns Out We Can Use Human Energy to Heat Buildings Instead of Fossil Fuels
In the cult film The Matrix, unwitting humans’ body heat was siphoned off by machines to use as their energy source. Although that might not be the ideal situation to find ourselves in, the basis of the idea – using the warmth we generate to heat our buildings – could help fight climate change by…
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Newly Released Email Claims Climate-Friendly BlackRock ‘Didn’t Mean’ the Nasty Things It Said About Big Oil
Financial giant BlackRock, which has fashioned itself as a leader in a global transition to cleaner energy, seems more than willing to shrug off its climate commitments and keep investing in dirty fuels behind closed doors, according to an email released this week.